EE

¹ American  

1. a proportional shoe width size narrower than EEE and wider than E.

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-ee ² American  

1. a suffix forming from transitive verbs nouns which denote a person who is the object or beneficiary of the act specified by the verb (addressee; employee; grantee ); recent formations now also mark the performer of an act, with the base being an intransitive verb (escapee; returnee; standee ) or, less frequently, a transitive verb (attendee ) or another part of speech (absentee; refugee ).

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e.e. ³ American  

abbreviation

1. errors excepted.

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E.E. ⁴ American  

abbreviation

1. Early English.

2. electrical engineer.

3. electrical engineering.

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EE ¹ British  

abbreviation

1. Early English

2. electrical engineer(ing)

3. (in New Zealand) ewe equivalent

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-ee ² British  

suffix

1. indicating a person who is the recipient of an action (as opposed, esp in legal terminology, to the agent, indicated by -or or -er )

   assignee

   grantee

   lessee

2. indicating a person in a specified state or condition

   absentee

   employee

3. indicating a diminutive form of something

   bootee

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ee ³ British  

/ iː /

noun

1. a Scot word for eye 1

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ee ⁴ British  

abbreviation

1. Estonia

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e.e. ⁵ British  

abbreviation

1. errors excepted

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Usage

What does -ard mean? The suffix -ee is used to denote nouns related to the object or beneficiary of an act or the performer of an act. It is often used in everyday and technical terms.The form -ee comes from the French suffixes -é (masculine) and ée (feminine), which are used to designate past participles, much like how -ed is used in English. The suffixes -é and ée come from Latin -ātus (masculine) and -āta (feminine), of the same meaning.

Etymology

Origin of -ee

< French -é, (masculine), -ée (feminine), past participle endings < Latin -ātus, -āta -ate ¹

Example Sentences

Recently it lost another 1,200 jobs in the space of 18 months as EE, IBM, Amazon and plastics firm Berry's either closed or shifted their operations elsewhere.

From BBC

Despite EE's content restrictions not applying to content viewed using wi-fi, the firm believes its new plans still provide teen smartphone users and parents with more protections.

From BBC

EE says it carried out further work overnight to fix a technical problem which left some customers unable to make or receive calls.

From BBC

Thousands of EE and BT customers have reported they are unable to make or receive calls as the mobile phone network faces an outage.

From BBC

For instance, under the new rules, someone with a mobile Sim only contract with EE will see their bill go up by £1.50 a month, or £18 a year.

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